Front cover image for Public characters

Public characters

Alexander Stephens, R. Phillips (Publisher)
Journal, Magazine, English, [1798]-1809
Printed for R. Phillips, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and sold by T. Hurst and J. Wallis, Paternoster-row; Carpenter and Co. old bond-street; R.H. Westley, Strand; and all booksellers, London, [1798]-1809
Biography
10 volumes : portraits (some folded), folded plan ; 22 cm (8vo)
1929272
Volume 2 includes memoirs of: Earl of St. Vincent
Sheridan
Thomas Erskine
Rev. Dr. Parr
Dr. Charles Hutton
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury
Isaac Milner
Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath
Rev. William Farish
Sir Francis Bourgeois
Duke of Richmond
Mrs. Abington
Mr. Saurin
Dr. Samuel Arnold
Lord Bridport
Marquis of Lansdown
Sir John Parnell
Robert Southey
Dr. Patrick Duigenan
George Ponsonby
Granville Sharp
Thomas Pelham
Duke of Grafton
Mr. Secretary Cooke
John Cartwright
William Robert Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinster
Mrs. Inchbald
Earl Wentworth Fitzwilliam
William Godwin
Rev. Mr. Graves
William Shield
Sir George Yonge
Dr. Thomas Garnett
Lord Dillon
Robert Steward, Lord Castlerea
Adam Fergusson
William Hayley
Countess of Derby
Mr. Pratt
Dr. Harrington of Bath
Duchess of Gordon
James Currie
Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford
Mr. Cowper
Miss Linwood
Lord Kenyon
Warren Hastings. Volume 3 includes memoirs of: Matthew Boulton
Professor Porson
John Pinkerton
Charles Wilberforce
Mrs Charlotte Smith
Sir Ralph Abercromby
Lord Dorchester
Charles Earl Stanhope
Dr. James Gregory
Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater
William Mavor
Robert Ker Porter
John Thelwall
Thomas Jefferson
Bushrod Washington
John Gillies
Lord Hobart
Mr. Bidlake
Alexander Wedderburne, Lord Loughborough
Dugald Stewart
Hugh Blair
Mr. Barry
Mrs. Mary Robinson
John Ireland
Sir William Beechey
William Henry Cavendish, Duke of Portland
Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Peter Parker
Edmund Cartwright
Lord William Wyndham Grenville
William Hawes
Edmund Randolph
Paul Sandby
John Clerk
John Coakley Lettsom
George Colman
Alderman Skinner
Dr. James Anderson
Prince de Bouillon
George, Duke of Marlborough
David Rae.volum Volume 4 includes memoirs of: William Lord Auckland
Dr. Jenner
The Goldsmids
Dr. William Vincent
George, Earl of Macartney
Lord Harrington
Archdeacon Paley
Robert Roddam
Sir Richard Hill
Rev. Rowland Hill
Dr. John Law
Dr. George Hill
Sir Roger Curtis
Dr. Robert John Thornton
Gen. Ira Allen
Thomas Jones
Dr. Trotter
Rev. Richard Polwhele
Thomas Harris
Christopher Anstey
William Gifford
Professor Carlyle
Henry Mackenzie
Dr. Thomas Busby
Mrs. Billington
William Hutton
William Thomson
Sir. William Ouseley
Sir Francis Burdett
James Watt
John Palmer
Lord Minto. Volume 5 includes memoirs of: Sir Robert Peel
William Cornwallis
Dr. Thomas Kipling
Gen. William Medows
John Almon
John Graves Simcoe
Edward, Lord Ellenborough
Marquis of Buckingham
William Fawcett
Duke of Queensborough
Margravine of Anspach
David Dundas
Richard Gough
Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle
George Isaac Huntingford
Lady Hamilton
Pascal Paoli
Mr. Braham
John Julius Angerstein
Henry James Pye
John Fane, Earl of Westmoreland
Marquis of Wellesley
William Cleaver
Duke of Northumberland
Charles Vallancey
Lord Cathcart
Lodge Evans Morris, Lord Frankfort
James Edward Urquhart
Major Rennel
Vicesimus Knox
John Randolph, Bishop of Oxford
Anna Seward
Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath. Volume 7 includes memoirs of: Lord Keith
Mrs. Damer
John Doyle
Mrs. Thicknesse
Joseph Pasley
Joel Barlow
Henry Greathead
Sir James Mackintosh
Charles Abbot
Charles, Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Manners Sutton
Thomas Morris
Charles Morris
Aaron Burr
Walter Blake Kirwan
Home Riggs Popham
George Canning
Roscius
Henry Bate Dudley
Andrew Mitchell
Madame D'Arblay
Charles Morice Pole
Robert William Elliston
Alderman Combe
First volume (preface dated Nov. 1798) published under title: British public characters of 1798; several following volumes have "To be continued annually" on title pages
Title pages have 8 lines of quotations from Shakespeare's Henry VIII and Horace's Satires (Latin) below title
Volumes 2- have engraved portraits sketches as frontispieces (volumes 2 and 3 by J. Owen)
Most of the contents of the first 9 vols. were contributed by Alexander Stephens. See Dict. nat. biog
No more published
Volumes 5 and 6 includes indexes